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BUTTERMPACKGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,950, dated October`2, 1883.

Application filed March 6, 1883. (Nb model.)

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Be it known that I, HARVEY I). BARBER, of Malden, county of Bureau, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Butter-Packages, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, that will enable others to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this specification.

This invention relates more especially to an improved package for shipping and handling butter, but may be used for analogous purposes, the object being to provide a cheap inexpensive package having a loose bottom, which is adapted to be forced upward for the purpose of bodily removing the contents ofthe package without destroying or inarring the body as a whole.

Figure lis a vertical central section of a package embodying my improved features, and Fig. 2 a view of the underside of a package.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the side inclosing-walls in the form of a circular band; B, the removable cover, and C the loosel bottom. The loose bottoni C is retained in place by the two metallic bands D D, which intersect each other at right angles in a horizontal plane underneath the bottom ofthe package or box, as shown in Fig. I of the drawings. These bands are bent upw'ard at right angles over the edge of the bottom, and extend upward on the inside of the nclosing- Walls, the ends a being finally clamped down over the top edge ofthe band A. By this form and arrangement the metallic bands not only support the loose bottom, but greatly strengthen the whole structure, and permit of 4o the bottoinbcing moved out in an upward but not in a downward direction.

. I propose to use paper or other cheap light material in the-construction of these packages, as it is not intended to make use of them 4 5 a second time. Y

The packages are intended to be of such di mensions as to hold exactly one pound, or any other positive quantity, so as to be easily and conveniently handled by the different hands 5o through which the goods pass, and reach the consumer in an unbroken package, and when required for use the contents may be expelled in bulk by forcing the loose bottom upward from the supporting-bands.

It is intended to place the butter in these small packages and then pack numbers in a large case for shipment to market, where the small packages are then retailed to the consumer. 6o

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

In a package of the character hereinbefore described, the combination, with the inclos- 65 ing-walls A, of the removable bottom C and the metallic bands D D', adaptedto retain and support the bottom in proper position relative to the inclosing-walls, readily allowing the bottom to be forced out in an upward but 7o not in a downward direction, substantially as set forth.

HARVEY I). BARBER. Vitn esses L. B. COUPLAND, J. A. SMITH. 

